Although smoking prevalence has declined in recent years, certain subpopulations continue
to smoke at disproportionately high rates and show resistance to cessation treatments …

Cigarette smoke is a harmful air pollutant and nicotine dependence is the essential cause of
the tobacco epidemic. Since mitochondrial abnormalities are associated with substance …

Not everyone who tries tobacco or other nicotine-containing products becomes a long-term
user. Certain traits or factors that are differentially present in these individuals must be able …

Studies using mice and rats have demonstrated that nicotine induces a conditioned place
preference (CPP), with more effective results obtained by using biased procedures …

Rationale Zebrafish have a sophisticated color-and shape-sensitive visual system, so we
examined color cue-based novel object recognition in zebrafish. We evaluated preference in …

Sensitization of motor activity is a behavioural test to evaluate the effects of
psychostimulants. Conditioned place preference (CPP) is an associative learning procedure …

The rewarding properties of drugs in zebrafish can be studied using the conditioned place
preference (CPP) paradigm. Most devices that have been used for CPP consist of two-half …

In the present study, the effects of bilateral microinjections of cannabinoid CB1 receptor
agonist and antagonist into the basolateral amygdala (intra-BLA) on nicotine-induced place …

Prior exposure to drugs of abuse may facilitate addiction. It has been described that pre-
exposure to nicotine can increase or, contrarily, prevent conditioned place preference …

Rats raised in an enriched condition (EC) exhibit alterations in the neurobiological and
behavioral response to nicotine compared with rats reared in an impoverished condition (IC) …